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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 20, 1937.
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“Ohl no! we never mention attitude. For one thing, the Fascists seem to have ignored the basic fact that France holds from her geographical position holds all the trumps in the volun- teer game, and the withdrawal of pickets from the French border may mean that if pushed to it she is going to play some of them.
We do not need to go to Europe to find fighting with limited lia- bility, or the attempt to dodge the
All communications intended for responsibility. There must be limits to the excuse that subor- publication should be addressed to dinate officers "get out of hand” the Editor, and be accompanied by and "kick over the traces.” Each the Writer's Name and Address, State is supposed to control its not necessarily for insertion own regular forces, otherwise it cannot remain in the comity of as a quarantee of good faith. nations." At Lukouchiao an agreement was made, after а slight fracas, that the troops. should be withdrawn a certain distance by both sides. A. com- pany of Japanese troops decided to remain where they were. The Chinese soldiers then returned to drive them away, and serious fighting ensued. One would have
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would have enforced discipline. without further parley. Instead of that, reinforcements were hur- ried from the Great Wall, and two great nations are seriously The philological purist,
unsettled The indiscipline of there are still any specimens left regular troops is closely akin to of that somewhat pedantic but the volunteering in Spain. It always fanatical spécies, must means that another nail has been nowadays keep as close a watch driven into the coffin of good or- over his words as a banker does der, which requires that govern- over his money.
They wander ments must be held responsible across the Atlantic and come back for the actions of their nationals to us with an entirely new shade of fighting in other people's coun- in peace or war, and that any sort of meaning, accompanied some-
times with strange companions to tries is war. whom we must be introduced as complete strangers if we are to understand our cabled news. Oc-
casionally they are the offspring Nature's Lavish Hand of sheer laziness on the part of sub-editors. Events happen “alle- It appears that the Location gedly", which is a compact way Committee (if that is what they of saying that they are alleged to called it) of next year's Scottish have happened. A man who is National Exhibition chose better thought to have done something than they knew when they fixed has done it "reputedly." Other on Bellahouston Park as the site. well established words acquire a Already, with the work of erec- new connotation to keep pace with tion barely approaching that of the infinite ingenuity of man in its Paris rival on opening day, finding new ways of defining old the excavators (it is reported) things when the time-worn des- have struck not oil but its co- cription of them has become un-combustible coal. A nice · large popular.
outcrop has been uncovered, con- veniently situated in the founda- Some such change has over- tions of the Palace of Engineer- taken the good old word “volun- ing One cannot imagine such teer." It has been caused by the palace without its complement of unpopularity of the word "war,” boilers, great and small, and which has become burdened with Clydeside's regard for the b'iler” many possibilities of counter-al- verges on idolatry; with a free liances and reprisals. A Govern- supply of fuel at foot not to keep ment is therefore rather anxious a wee b'iler bilin as a sort of to avoid the imputation of making votive offering will seem like that war, and it is simpler to allow cardinal Scots crime waste some "volunteers" to go and the mercies. fight. The volunteer is a soldier
for whom his Government is dis- Nor is that all. Bountiful inclined to take diplomatic res Nature, anxious to suit all tastes, ponsibility. He is a conscript who has provided in addition. (it is could not be without a breach of further stated) a plentiful de- discipline be absent without leave: posit of peat in the model-High- He is supplied with ammunitiön land village. So between the Bab- by his Government. When wound-cox and the kail-pots Bella looks ed he is brought back to a milit-like acquiring a reputation for ary hospital.
But what he has reek rivalling Rutherglen, ber been doing is not technically a aged relative on the other side breach of the peace. Quite apart of Glasgow. Only instead of from the airmen, General Franco “Ruglen's wee round reid: lums would be unable to carry on for reek briskly, it may be ““Bella- a week without his German “vol- houston's boat and broth b'ilers unteer" technicians of all sorts. bubble brawly......
The hottest engagement, of the
civil war in Spain was the incid- All very satisfactory. In fact it ent when some Italian volunteers would seem as if Dame Nature were routed by Russian volun- has done more than her duty in teers. The breakdown of non-in-the way of boosting Bella H. Un- tervention will do away with a less, of course, she decides to lot of humbug, but it will bring settle the local wet/dry contro- much nearer the use of the ugly verɛy once and for all by throw- word "war" which everybody ing up a gusher of authentic has been avoiding with a kind Mountain Dew.